January 5, 2010
Written by: Brad Stotler
Facing a local unemployment rate of nearly 14 percent, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has stressed that he's focused on one goal often overlooked in his previous term: creating jobs. To do so, the Mayor has turned to some of...
January 5, 2010
Written by: Brad Stotler
The Port of Long Beach has significantly reduced air pollution since 2005, according to a recent Air Emissions Inventory report. The Port of Long Beach achieved its best air quality report card since emissions studies began in 2002 through cleaner...
December 16, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
State and local politicians shouldn't try to do the job of Teamsters organizers, the Daily Breeze wrote in their Dec. 12 article Focus on pollution, not labor."There's nothing wrong with the Teamsters wanting to organize truck drivers. But there is...
December 9, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
Attempts by the Teamsters Union and their allies in the environmental community to demonize the Port of Long Beach as being soft on pollution are a fraud, the Long Beach Press-Telegram writes in a Dec. 7 editorial."The best evidence of...
November 25, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
"Long Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon has rejected an appeal to the City Council that sought to overturn the settlement agreement between the Port of Long Beach (POLB) and the American Trucking Associations," writes the Cunningham Report. The appeal filed...
November 23, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
The city of Los Angeles has spent over $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the union-friendly concession requirements attached to the Clean Truck Program at the Port of Los Angeles, writes Bill Mongelluzzo in his Nov. 13 Journal...
November 16, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
Intermodal freight movement has become all the rage since Warren Buffett's $26 billion investment in Burlington Northern Railroad, writes industry analyst John Schulz in a recent Gerson Lehrman Group report. "But how much freight, really, is going to be moved...
November 10, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
The American Shipper Magazine reported on Nov. 9 that diesel particulate matter emissions at the Port of Los Angeles have decreased by 27 percent since 2005. The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach have measured port-related...
November 6, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
National and state associations representing importers, exporters, logistics companies and logistics service providers sent a letter on Nov. 4 to the mayors of New York City and Newark, N.J., criticizing their support for a union campaign to ban truck driver...
November 3, 2009
Written by: Brad Stotler
A coalition of shipping industry customers and service providers are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in clean trucks at ports in Southern California and across the nation to improve air quality, said the Coalition for Responsible Transportation (CRT)."It has...
